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This document discusses machine learning classification. It defines classification as assigning class labels to data using machine learning algorithms. It describes four main types of classification: binary classification which has two classes, multi-class classification which has more than two classes, multi-label classification which allows multiple class labels per example, and imbalanced classification where the class distributions are uneven. Examples are provided for each type of classification.

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Classification

This document discusses machine learning classification. It defines classification as assigning class labels to data using machine learning algorithms. It describes four main types of classification: binary classification which has two classes, multi-class classification which has more than two classes, multi-label classification which allows multiple class labels per example, and imbalanced classification where the class distributions are uneven. Examples are provided for each type of classification.

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18CSE392T – Machine Learning I

Department of Data Science and Business Systems

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CLASSIFICATION

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Definition

Classification is a task that makes use of


machine learning algorithms that learns
how to assign a class label to the data.

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Types of Classification

Classification
Binary Multi-Class
Predictive
Classification Classification
Modeling

Multi-Label Imbalanced
Classification Classification

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Classification Predictive Modeling
• Classification refers to a predictive modeling
problem where a class label is predicted for a
given example of input data.

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Binary Classification
• Binary classification refers to those
classification tasks that have two class labels.
• Examples include:
– Email spam detection (spam or not).
– Churn prediction (churn or not).

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Multi-class classification
• Multi-class
classification refers
to those classification
tasks that have more
than two class labels.
• Examples include:
– Face classification.
– Plant species
classification.
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Multi-label classification
• Multi-label classification refers to those classification
tasks that have two or more class labels, where one or
more class labels may be predicted for each example.
• Consider the example of photo classification, where a
given photo may have multiple objects in the scene
and a model may predict the presence of multiple
known objects in the photo, such as “bicycle,” “apple,”
“person,” etc.
• This is unlike binary classification and multi-class
classification, where a single class label is predicted for
each example.
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Imbalanced Classification
• Imbalanced Classification refers to classification
tasks where the number of examples in each class
is unequally distributed.
• Mostly, imbalanced classification tasks are binary
classification tasks where the majority of
examples in the training dataset belong to the
normal class and a minority of examples belong
to the abnormal class.
– Example - Fraud detection, Outlier detection.
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